“But Our Cancer Has Just Returned”: Lance Armstrong Quoting Paul Kimmage Still Reverberates in the Ace Journo’s Ears

Former cyclist Lance Armstrong, despite winning seven Tour de France, doesn’t have a good reputation in the sports community. Lance was involved in a doping scandal. For that, all his achievements were taken away from him.

In the recent podcast of The Indo Daily, Lance describes his terrible experience with journalists. Although this includes the infamous Sunday Independent journalist who was involved in exposing the disgraced cyclist.

The fear in the eyes of Lance Armstrong

Despite being involved with doping, Lance Armstrong always tried to avoid it or address it publicly. That didn’t last well because of the media. Media personnel were behind him everywhere.

“But our cancer has just returned,” Paul Kimmage added “Meaning me.” This was when Paul wanted to interview Lance. This statement was made during a press conference, as per Lance. He was terrified by the way Paul approached him. 

“So I think he goes without saying,” Paul said and continued, “No, we are not gonna sit down and do an interview.” Paul was determined to get words from Lance’s mouth on his doping scandal. He targeted Lance in every way, even by saying that he wasn’t worth the chair he was sitting in. Lance was truly terrified of the determined journalist. 

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The journalist played a crucial role in bringing down the disgraced cyclist. But still, after all this, Lance wasn’t ready to accept his mistakes.

Lance Armstrong’s views on his doings

Lance Armstrong just doesn’t care, even after all that has happened. The cyclist is still standing up for himself, and he even states what he did: he would do it again if he got the chance.

Lance violated the contract with the USPS by doping, thus defrauding the federal government. As a result, all of his accomplishments in 2012 were taken away. He wasn’t exposed till then because no one except Paul Kimmage tried to get into this scandal for years. Despite his horrendous acts in his racing career, Lance had a cancer research foundation known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Although he later stepped down as chairman and the foundation was renamed the Livestrong Foundation.

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What do you think of journalists targeting Lance Armstrong even after decades of his act? Do you think he deserves it? Let us know in the comment section.